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Life goal: grow so many indoor plants that there's measurably more CO2 outside than inside.

It's still Thursday, folks.

That movie does such an amazing job of walking the line between "it's cool to shoot people and blow stuff up" and "military vets are treated like crap".

I think the main takeaway for many is:

❌ Join the military

✅ Shoot people who disrespect you

Now I'll have to watch it again and see how well I remember a movie I haven't seen in probably 15 or 20 years.

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Update: I found https://webhosting.coop/ and while it doesn't look like they host Nextcloud instances now, there's a chance they might be able to be convinced to do so in the future.

Update 2:

I found a coop that will do this: mayfirst.coop

And one who will do this for non-commercial purposes: autistici.org

And if you're looking for just personal services, there's also 0xACAB.org

Update: I found https://webhosting.coop/ and while it doesn't look like they host Nextcloud instances now, there's a chance they might be able to be convinced to do so in the future.

If not that, then are there are self-hosters out there who have documented how to run Nextcloud in a cluster so any one server going down doesn't disrupt operations?

The closest things I could find were:

1. a database cluster (MariaDB), a shared filesystem (glusterfs, lvm?, cephfs?, zfs?), a couple proxies, a controller, and a ton of manual setup

https://severalnines.com/blog/deploying-highly-available-nextcloud-mysql-galera-cluster-and-glusterfs/

or...

2. Some magical thing to "sync the database" (which sounds like a read-only mirror at best)

https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-to-efficiently-mirror-backup-nextcloud-primary-server-with-the-secondary-one/149977

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Is there a coop that hosts Nextcloud instances for other coops?

#SelfHosting

A friend of .ine switched to them a few weeks ago and has been converted from a free trial to a paying customer.

Last week he remarked that one of the features he was really excited about with Kagi was the ability to downgrade the unhelpful sites (you know, yahoo answers, expert dot com and other junk like that) and promote sites that are helpful.

He found that, after hundreds of searches, he never really use that feature. He said Kagi just legotimately has better results and so he hasn't needed to use it.

It was a bittersweet realization in that he didn't use the feature he was **most** excited about and was what he was willing to **pay** for. On the other hand, he doesn't have the problem anymore, so it seems okay.

Would you keep paying for Google Ads if they didn't deliver any sales? If so, would you keep paying them as much or more than you are now?

I don't think it's such a crazy idea that people would find (or create) alternative if the vaule was not there.

It doesn't really matter, as it's unlikely that any ad blocker is going to become so widespread that it takes down Google's entire business model, especially when they control the majoritiy of the people's web browsers...

Nginx is forking. New hotness: http://freenginx.org/

This is what bappens when a corporation goes against the open source community.

Announcement: https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2024-February/K5IC6VYO2PB7N4HRP2FUQIBIBCGP4WAU.html

#SelfHosters #FOSS #Freedom #OpenSource